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120+ cases. 10+ schools exposed. 300+ quarantined.

BUT DON'T WORRY... Donald J. Trump's U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr did 11 pullups at an airport and, without evidence, blamed vaccines for autism.

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Nice tat Don.

Shiftless2 said:
Conservatism #2,462
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Wile E !
The cartoonist cut you at the knee, giving us paws.

Perhaps you may wish to taste some refreshing pond scum, instead of that hideous Kool-aid you've swilled.
Please do not conflate political conservatism with the U.S. Republican party.
In the Goldwater era the two may have been more closely allied.

It's a new millennium, and a preposterously different Republican party.
"...the magnificently misnamed "neo-conservatives", are the most radical people in this town [Washington DC]" George Will / ABC-TV This Week July 16, 2006
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It's only gotten worse George.

con·ser·va·tive (kən-sûrvə-tĭv)
adj.
1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
2. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit.
3. Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate.
4.
a. Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism.
b. Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement.
5. Conservative Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political conservatism, especially in the United Kingdom or Canada.
6. Conservative Of or adhering to Conservative Judaism.
7. Tending to conserve; preservative: the conservative use of natural resources.
n.
1. One favoring traditional views and values.
2. A supporter of political conservatism.
3. Conservative A member or supporter of a Conservative political party.
con·serva·tive·ly adv.
con·serva·tive·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

The U.S. Republican party may continue to lay waste to U.S. culture and institutions for years, potentially decades, as a political entity.
But its moral leadership is a spent force, squandered on the egos of shallow, unredeemable leaders. The reputation bell cannot be unrung.
 
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This makes the NAACP sound like the bad guys. The fact was the NAACP planned fight a case against Jim Crow Laws all the way to the Supreme Court. Jim Crow was the evil, not them. The NAACP recognized white juries and judges would find find any excuse to "blame the victim" and marginalize the case as it worked its way through the system. They knew that to win in court the plaintiff had to be "above reproach", and they soon found one, (since blacks' rights were violated daily) in Rosa Parks
 
Thank you Claudette & Rosa
Shiftless2 said:
"The fact was the NAACP planned fight a case against Jim Crow Laws all the way to the Supreme Court." #2,465
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S2,
I suspect most Americans are not aware the event that enshrined Rosa Parks' name in our civil rights lore was carefully planned.
Such preparation may be more common than the layman imagines.

Perhaps more conspicuous on Independence Day, a day commonly referred to by the date on which it falls, July 4,
we patriotically embrace our Founding principles:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed ..." TJ / DOI
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Sounds noble enough.
Problem is, the man that penned them was a slave owner, & rapist.
Those attempting to defend Jefferson might argue Sally Hemings consented.
But a slave, a person denied legal right of free choice cannot legally consent.
Compounding this, some slave owners bequeathed freedom to their human property.
Jefferson did not, and died in debt.

note:
Thomas Jefferson wrote the rough draft of the DOI; John Adams and Ben Franklin were the editors.
Jefferson originally wrote:

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable ..." Jefferson

Franklin expresses his reservation about that phrasing to Jefferson. Franklin explained; we're founding a new country. It's not based on assertions of religion. It's based on assertions of reason. We should reflect that religious tolerance in this writing.
source: Walter Isaacson: author of: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
 
A woke video from just after WWII

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“In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, all of is.”
This 1940s film warning against bigotry and fascism is more relevant now than ever.

And the video
 
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